One penny share for thrill-seeking investors

Investing in penny shares can be a bit of a rollercoaster ride. That's literally the case for one London-listed company, which hopes to make a fortune for its investors by backing a new theme park in Italy. Can it succeed? Tom Bulford takes a look.

It takes companies of all sorts to make up the penny share universe. In ten years of sifting through this most intriguing quarter of the market I have come across all sorts of wacky ideas and interesting characters. Companies that want to pull treasure from ancient shipwrecks, companies that want to launch rockets out of the atmosphere, septuagenarian adventurers trekking in search of gold

But they don't come much stranger than Brainspark (LSE: BSP). This stock market tiddler has a board consisting mainly of Italian businessmen. It has a shady Swiss investor, operations all over the world and a history that would make all but the most forgiving investors run a mile.

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